You are a member of a free forum right now. Administrators can choose to ban you for whatever reason they might like, effectively charging you for your stupidity.

EA has the policy that those banned from their forums will lose access to all of their games. They have effectively made it a 0 benefit, 100% cost game.

I would like to see Gabe Newell's actual plan. Valve isn't stupid enough to swing the ban hammer (or monetary one) wildly, nor are they going to do something that isn't well reasoned. The article suggests a bit of ego driving the initial project, but nothing is stated about how the actual mechanic might work.

In short; if this were EA I'd be microwaving popcorn and waiting for the eventually spectacular failure that this would become. As it's Valve at the helm, I'd like to see something before judgement is passed. While the issue is complex, I'm not willing to dismiss anything coming from Valve until there is good reason.

New Steam Accounts (FULL PRICE)
New Steam Accounts with at least one purchased game(can cut up to 10% Discount)
6 Month Old Steam Account with at least one purchased game(can cut up to 20% Discount)
1 Year Old Steam Account with at least one purchased game(can cut up to 50% Discount)
2 Year Old Steam Account with at least one purchased game(can get games for free)

not all games are eligible and different games, different Discounts

each account will have a progress bar which goes up until you've reach the max possible discount for that account/game whenever you do something good.

every troll/cheat you make, the progress bar will go down until it goes back to FULL PRICE again.

just my idea, not an expert on this.

The question is.. how will they know if you've trolled/cheated or if you've done something good